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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The school referred to by the Deputy is a four teacher school with approximately 16 pupils. At the start of this school year there were three teaching vacancies out of a total teaching complement of four teaching posts at the school. Due to this exceptional number of vacancies, the school was unable to re-open in September 2007. The recruitment process is in hand and the Board of...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: My Department funds four maintenance grant schemes for third level and further education students. These are the Higher Education Grants (HEG) Scheme, the Vocational Education Committees' Scholarships Scheme, the Third Level Maintenance Grants Scheme for Trainees and the Maintenance Grants Scheme for Students attending Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) Courses. The HEG Scheme is administered...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I wish to inform the Deputy that the breakdown of the 2008 school building budget between the various schemes administered by my Department's School Building Section, including the devolved schemes, has not yet been determined.

Written Answers — Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) is a second-chanceeducation initiative, which is funded by my Department, for unemployed persons who are at least 21 years of age and in receipt of certain social welfare payments for at least six months. It is operated through the Vocational Education Committees. The aim of the Scheme is to give unemployed people education and training...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The decision on eligibility for third level grants is a matter for the relevant assessing authority — i.e. the local authority or VEC. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department except, in exceptional cases, where, for example, advice or instruction regarding a particular clause in the relevant scheme is required. If an individual applicant considers that she/he...

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I never said any such thing.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: If the Deputy wants to know what I am saying, he should learn how to lip read.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: That is because the Opposition is allowed debate for 40 minutes.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: That was the Taoiseach.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Some 17,000 work with people with special needs.

Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: No doubt.

Order of Business (21 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: It is in the post.

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Agreement was reached between the trustees of the three existing post primary schools in Skibbereen to amalgamate into a single school. The Property Management Section of the Office of Public Works (OPW) was requested to source a suitable site to facilitate this amalgamation. To date, however, the sourcing of a green field site has proved very difficult. Following advertisement a number of...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: It is the policy of my Department to provide all new schools with access for all facilities and special toilets for disabled teachers and students. In addition, new schools with two or more storeys are provided with lifts. My Department advises school authorities and their design teams of accessibility requirements during the architectural planning process of projects. In relation to existing...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I am assuming that the Deputy is referring to the Dormant Accounts Funded Small Scale ICT Scheme for DEIS Schools. In April 2007, I announced details of this once-off scheme, which was among the priority funding measures approved for support in 2007 under the Educational Disadvantage category of the Dormant Account Fund. Eligibility for the scheme was restricted to the 873 primary and post...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 396 to 398, inclusive, together. Results of a survey on the uptake of Stay Safe carried by the Child Abuse Prevention Programme, (CAPP) and my Department in 2006 show that 78.4% of schools in Westmeath are teaching Stay Safe, 72.5% of schools in Longford and 84.1% nationally. There was a very high response rate to this questionnaire — 91.8%. It should also...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: The tender report for the school referred to by the Deputy is under examination in my Department at present. The school's Board of Management will be kept advised of developments when the examination is complete.

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Among the priority funding measures approved for support in 2006/2007 under the Educational Disadvantage category of the Dormant Account Fund and the RAPID Leverage Fund, was a scheme addressing educational infrastructure in disadvantaged schools. Eligibility for the scheme was restricted to primary and post primary schools participating in my Department's DEIS programme; schools in, or...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 401 and 402 together. Under the terms of my Department's four Student Maintenance Grant Schemes, grants are payable to candidates pursuing approved full-time courses who meet prescribed conditions, including those pertaining to nationality, residency, means, age and previous academic attainment. Under the residency requirement a candidate's parents, or in the...

Written Answers — Cursaí Gaelscoileanna: Cursaí Gaelscoileanna (20 Nov 2007)

Mary Hanafin: Tá se i gceist agam ceisteanna 403, 404 agus 405 a fhreagairt le chéile. Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom a shoiléiriú nach ndearnadh an tumoideachas sa Ghaeilge mídhleathach. Cuireann mo Roinnse raon tacaíochtaí ar fáil chun scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge a bhunú agus chun teagasc agus cumarsáid trí mheán na Gaeilge a spreagadh. Urramaítear go hiomlán ceart tuismitheoirí agus páistí...